5 stars are actually the same price as a 3 or 4 star. Basing this off of dupes 2 star dupe = 55 3 star shards 3 star dupe = 55 4 star shards 4 star dupe = 275 5 star shards 55 x 5 = 275 2,000 x 5 = 10,000 So if the cut the price of a 5 star crystal in half should they also cut the rest of the crystals prices also?
This is pretty disappointing. I understand that they need to make profit ... it is a business at the end of the day. This is going a bit too far though. There should be no reason why they go as far as to restrict champs based on their star level. They’re taking all 6 classes in doing so. This doesn’t raise the level of difficulty by any means. It simply increases the gap between summoners with less and more developed rosters.
They have restricted by one or a few class levels before, but now they’re restricting a whole star level that, with the increased power levels of r2 and r3 6*s that we’ll see in Act 6, won’t be too viable to use. It’s not fair. Most people don’t have the time to get into arena so they’re almost forcing summoners hands into buying more of their garbage 5* offers. It’s a money grab.
The sad thing is that if this remains in the game. There will be a lot of people who will end up quitting and it’s very unfortunate. I myself am at about 650k rating and do ,singly use 5*s to do most of my content. I have been playing the game for about two years now and hate to see this. I occasionally use one or two 4*s in random event quests from time to time. I use the occasional synergy’s just for fun ... don’t necessarily rely on it but still think this is unfair.
I have r5 certain 4*s out of mere love of the champ and using them and although I probably wouldn’t throw them into Act 6 as my go to ... don’t like the thought of them restricting me from using them in any area of the game.
A couple more reasons why this is bad. 1 - everyone’s top champs are generally locked up in AW and AQ, so even if you have a strong roster you also need a deep one. If you’ve got 3 5/65 5*s and say 7 or 8 4/55s it’s a good bet that a lot of those are locked up in alliance modes. At this point some of your best options might be that maxed out 5/50 4* Blade or Corvus or whomever. 2 - Specific nodes or bosses might require particular champs in order to beat them. Say there’s a stacked Korg or Thing, you need certain champs to beat these guys. What if there’s a huge regen boss and you don’t have a strong heal block/reversal 5* or 6*? Sorry about your luck? 3 - I like the idea of requirements but as a power level cap. What if you were restricted to ONLY 4*s and lower? Or even 3*s? This would make it more about skill.
I feel Kabam has made two types of alliances/players now. Those who pay to play and progress and those who keep it casual. I'm not a great player but I have been playing semi casual for 3 years and a 690k rating and done with alliances. I am not paying to keep up.
I've had a 1 man alliance for about a year now. I just do all the events and run AQ map 1 by myself. 5 clears a week gives me just under 1k glory, which slowly adds up to purchases of t2a and t5b. I'm 588k and progressing slowly, but zero stress. AW sucks, and hard AQ maps I can also live without. 100% FTP, and stress free, that's the way. Cos this is a GAME. A game is a fun thing. It's only fear of missing out, of being left behind, that drives 98% of players to go nuts until they burn out.
Look me up . My IGN is Harbor Kat. We are a retired alliance that plays only for alliance event rewards and occasionally AQ map 3. No AW and no pressure. Only requirement is to hit the help button if you're on.
im working on act 5 at the moment, not quite at act 6 yet but as it stands my 4* are the life of my team, i have a few 5* but all are unawakened, this basically means my game has stalled until i can grind more 5* and duplicate them (on a free to play account) Thanks KABULLSH....
Yeah it’s a massive grind to build up a f2p roster and rank up. Have been playing almost a year and got zero 6* shards and two 5* heroes I can’t rank up or awaken. Think I might be quitting this game soon
whales are going to be running war with OP champs while everyone else gets left behind. either spend to keep/catch up or play super casual or just find another game and waste the last couple of years of years on this clown fiesta of a game
With all due respect your wrong Act 5 and below/AQ/AW/Monthly Events /ROL/RTLOL/ Lab / Some Variant/Arens/Dungeons can still be done with 4 stars how can you say they are irrelevant over a single act
Aldo Perez when did I say that ? I think this is a misunderstanding . I am f2p myself and I did all act5 100% with only 4stars and I am pissed off about this no 4star requirement. Really pissed off ..
I believe i did misunderstand. I thought you were in agreement with this affecting 4 stars to the point if them beinng irrelevant... yes it sucks that i cant bring in my 4 main champs because they are 4s but when i saw the reqs. I saw them as nothing it affects me in no way
Im one of those people that has a 5/65 (and 4 t5b so i can take more up), and a couple 4/55s & 6*s. But for me, these requirements just took out most my utility champs. Like if theres biohazard i gotta rank up my r1 5* Ultron which i dont really want to do because i have 3 or 4 double immune 4*s. And i cant bring in my 4* GR for blade. And i cant bring in my Ghost or brand new Ægon for some sick damage (and variety). I could go on more but i think yall get the point. My 4*s bring more utility to the table than my 5*s can. Another point. Kabam should've prefaced with, "this content is not made for 4*s". Yeah its the same effect to not use em, but at least itll be our choice, not a forced law.
Not true. It will take more skill to beat. You won't be able to rely on synergies or your God tier broken 4 *. Please stop and remember we asked for hard content. Eq isn't even hard anymore. LoL has been easy so far... Variant is annoying but hasn't be hard.. I am looking forward to the challenge. Put your big boy diapers on and get too it.
@@DJ_TRON Nope dude, ppl did boycot and kabam had to backout with theyre ridicilous nerfhammer what they did. Sure we didnt get back normalnsw and so on but they were much more nerfed as they are now.
I was around for the first one and this feels a whole lot like that one did. The community wasn't mad enough the second time. Almost everyone is mad over this one though. If a boycott is gonna happen this is worthy of it.
@@citizenbrain8065 Yeah i was around too. This calls for it to so badly. And not just this but new information about what seatin said about 5 and 6* for act 6. And now this silent "nerf" for ghost example. Removing gifting badges and so on.
I’m kinda thankful because I had a few days to take a step back and evaluate the amount I’ve spent and fun it’s been. Feel great about putting the game down for at least some months.
Another boycott should happen. Hate the direction the game is going now. Find myself questioning daily if I still wana play, only thing stopping me is not wanting to let my team mates down
I am so pissed about that, it's just stupid and dumb as if I want to do a run of act 5 using 3 stars I can but act6 I can't use my four stars that I have spend so many resources and time on. I say the community should #boycott act6. I have been playing this game for more than 2 years and my rating is at 460k but still don't have more than 4 good five stars that I can use.
@Umair same here, I've been playing for 2-3 years now and have only just got one of my (only 7) 5*s (Spiderman symbiote) into rank 3!!! All my fighting/questing is done by 4*s!
I HOPE THEY DO CHANGE A LOT OF THINGS BUT THEY CANNOT BE SUED I BELIEVE BECAUSE IF YOU READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WHICH YOU AGREE TO WHILE DOWNLOADING THE GAME. NOTHING IN YOUR ACCOUNT IS ACTUALLY YOURS AND THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY LIKE WITH YOUR ACCOUNT IF THEY WISH TO. YOU HAVE NO CLAIM WHATSOEVER. SO EVEN IF SOMEONE SUED THEM FOR ANY NUANCES IN THE GAME, THEIR CASE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN THE COURT OF LAW ON ANY CONTINENT. I REALISED I USED ONLY CAPITAL LETTERS. I AM NOT SHOUTING AND I AM BEING VERY POLITE :p JUST CANT WRITE THE WHOLE THING IN SMALL LETTERS AGAIN. APOLOGIES IF YOU ARE THAT KIND OF PERSON WHO GETS OFFENDED OR FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BEING YELLED AT WHEN YOU SEE CAPITAL LETTERS. I AM NOT . HAVE A GOOD DAY.
Definitely. I’m really pissed. I have a strong endgame account with five r5 5* and I happen to not have a 5* ghost rider therefore I can kiss my villain synergie goodbye -_-
I totally agree with you proff! I'm one of those of the community that still use a lot of my 4*. I hope they rethink their decision to make 4* obsolete. I spend a lot of time on this game hoping that I can continue to grow, and this puts a damper on that plan. Thank you for all you do and God bless!
I couldn’t agree more with what you said and majority of the comments below...my 5* luck is terrible , occasionally I get lucky. If only my phc and 4* luck could transfer over to a 5* crystal I’d have no complaints. I do have a duped r4 Corvus, unawakened r4Blade, R4 Starky and the rest are r3-Wasp, x23, Proxima, Nebula and the rest are rank2 or below meh characters or need to be awakened to be good. I was fortunate enough to be one of those people who became Uncollected with 300-400units only using 1 rank3 5* & the rest were 4*s at rank5 or 4. I have just a deep enough roster atm to were I’m able to war, quest, do AQ, but come Act 6 there’s no way I can even attempt it. I’ve been playing for under 2yrs and I’ve only 100%ed up to 5.1, I’ve spent so much time in the arena as well grinding for 4*s so I def agree as well about Kabam doing a percentile thing in the 5*arena, atleast then it gives people in the community that are in my shoes a chance to dupe or get those 5*s we need so we don’t have to be reliant on 4*s...anyways, glad to have you as one of the voices of our community
I’m upset about this for two main reasons. First I fail to understand why? Why do they care if I use 4* or 5*? If the content is so hard that you can’t get through with a 4* team, why do they care if I want to spend enough money on revives to push through? I know people will say money but im actually paying them more if I keep buying unit packages for revives... to me. Why do they care if I want to take a champion to practice, or get better? Why do they want stifle progression of players. My main issue though is that I have no control over the progression of my account. The last three pulls Have been the same champions that I already have duped on my account. So if i had 10 5* champs before, I still have the same 10 champions. Good or not. My account hasnt progress at all in the last three month, not because I haven’t open 5 star champions crystals, but because I keep pulling the same bs champions it’s just as annoying. And find it hypocritical that the rewards I get for completions helps my 4star roster more than my 5*. It’s like them telling us we can’t put 2 star champs on defense but the gifting us two star champs. Ive never seen a company that dislikes its community like kablam. I play this game for fun and to me kabam has forgotten that this is a game that should be open to play. They should be finding ways to expand game play not always trying to restrict it. I don’t get why I keep being punished for wanting to play their game. And to be honest I would pay more money and be more invested if they were more generous in allowing me to invest in my account, with better deals, rewards and packages. However, I don’t support this. I do feel that we should boycott mainly because We’ve been given no prior warning what’s so ever and don’t find this no different than last time.
I can understand the pain and frustration this situation causes. It really does suck! My one additional point on this is the loss of an opportunity for a tougher challenge for those who want to try clearing act 6 quests with only 4*s. Similar to how players like to take a challenge by only using 3*s against the uncollected difficulty for the monthly event quests
I'm a level 52 player, got uncollected a month ago , 18 5* heroes and my total rating is about 319k. Just to let you know where I stand in the game right now. I get a 5* champion roughly once a month so I'm not even close to you when it comes to opening 5*. 5.3 and 5.4 are still undone which is fine.I don't intend to get it done so quickly. I think we all knew 4* heroes were losing their relevance in the contest,one way or another. The drop in scores for the basic arena, 4* shards being so easily available in alliance events, 5* shards being given out so readily in the monthly calendar, the release of 6* heroes, we all knew it in our hearts that the 4* guys time at the top was limited. They were becoming the new 3* champs and soon you'd need your 5* champions as your bread and butter champs. I completely get that synergies are going to be ruined with the 5-6* requirements, and its going to allow only the whales to really get in there and get the Cavalier title. However lets be real here. 4* heroes were going to be out of their depth in Act 6. You shouldn't be using a lot of them in the first place. Guys like Star-lord or Archangel may be exceptions due to their freakishly high damage output but the vast majority are going to be obsolete. You were always going to need 5* guys going forward into Act 6 to have a good chance of completing it. If you're lucky, 6* champions because you've been around long enough and skilled enough to get 10k 6* shards. You could argue that Kabam ought to give you a choice, bring 4* if you like and that's a fair point. It sucks you don't have a choice but its also sending a message that the game is moving forward. I hope in future, they make 4* shards easier to obtain, easier than now and also, 5* shards as well. Monthly event quests need to have their rewards buffed.They were at best adequate for when we had 5 Acts but Act 6 means the intermediate guys need buffs to their content. At least help us move forward a little.
Well Prof, I have been playing since 2015 with a one year break from 2017 to 2018. I only have eight 5 Star Characters and only one is a 4/5 55/55. Then I have all 4 *, 3*, and below. I use my 4 * for just about everything. I only utilize 2 5 * (because I only have 2 that are worth anything) for Act 4 and Act 5 (which is nowhere near completed) and then the rest 4 stars. I have been playing non-stop since I came back to the game in Sept/Oct 2018. I feel that all the work I am putting into the game to get through Act 4 at 100%, Act 5 and getting my champions ranked up is going to for nothing with the launch of Act 6. It's bad enough it took me this long to even get through Act 4 and start on Act 5 that by the time I get a good 5 star roster it will be a year from now or longer. I know I am not the only one. I don’t know what they are thinking or what their overall agenda is. There are a ton of players who are going to be out of luck and stuck for a long time. Thanks Prof.
My entire questing roster is r5 4 stars.. Sw is my bread and butter im pretty skilled this to me feela like a money grab... Ive been building for about a year and a half. Just got around to uncollected but this isn't fair... The game is extremely broken right now im finiding certain abilities arent working as well as certain masteries... I only have 16 5 stars no 6 stars.. Its gonna be another 2 years before i can even attempt a run at act 6 and by that time ill be left in the dust... This is purely money vs equality, catering to those whom have the deepest pockets... Why else would they be having a period where every featured gmc is available for purchase in the last 24-48 hours.... Its not right... I think we should be boycotting until this gets solved many other RUclipsrs feel the same as you and i agree 100% some of us lower end players have the skills to clear it maybe not 100% it yet but the initial clear is well within grasp of alot of us middle players and kabam is basically taking a s@$! On out efforts and what time and potential small amounts of miney we may have invested... Im disgusted and pissed at this
I only used 4 stars to complete act 5 and uncollected as I only got a 6* mephisto with february's event and now using the newly buffed she-hulk, I have 0 5 star rank4 and full T2A good to know im being stopped from progressing for being good at the game and having bad luck in 5* crystals, thank you kabam
Agreed Prof, as a 4yr veteran who used to lead an alliance for 2yrs and was an officer for another 2, I now started my own alliance of 1 called Kabam Suxxx!! I’ve sent multiple tickets in about this and other bs that they pull on mid level players. This is definitely catered for whales. I personally refuse to spend a dime and dispise the poor attitudes of most alliances. Think I’m done man. Unless Kabam would be awesome enough to convert all 4*s to 5*s etc. But that’s extreme wishful thinking.
I'm even against the special tag requirement they put I mean the dificyltiy is so high and they just giving us 2-4* and 3-5* crystals in which we mostly gona get 2* and 3* and we have to give 150-300 units per crystal the player who got skills but there acc is low on champions can't play higher difficulties!!! Thats also there money grabbing plan we should call this month of this game "Robbery event quest" where kabam will take money from all low level players and give them bunch of 2* and 3*
I agree with you good sir! If you can’t bring four stars into act 6, synergies need to be changed or all four star champs should be released as five or six stars.
Ok so no 4*'s allowed in Act 6. What happens as the game progress's? If the player community allows this to happen today, then the community opens itself up for future issues, where in later game content perhaps there will be no 5*'s allowed? Why not ? No more 4*'s today, then no 5*'s allowed tomorrow or when ever Kabam gets around to it. If the community doesn't stop this now this game will be just a pay-for-play in the future. Perhaps those who have don't care, but those who don't have 10's of thousands to drop will care.
I do have a decent roster of a few good 5*s but I have certain 4* champs that I depend on for certain fights like Medusa against ultron. I will eventually have the 5*s to do every bit of it but for the guys and girls that don’t have the luck it’s really shitty. I do feel bad for the folks in those situations
I’m the same as the guy you mentioned that did Act 5 with mostly 4* champs. I only have one r4 5* now and when I beat act 5 he was only r3. I literally play this game every day and spend almost all of my free time grinding in the arena or questing. I knew that they were cash-holes but damn dude.. this is fucked up. If a boycot is what everyone ends up agreeing on I WILL be a part of that.
I sit exactly at that bracket. Had no good pulls, still managed act 5, got two 4/55’s. I’ve even got uncollected on my second account with 4/40’s in less than a year. I’ve just had shit luck and this has written me off!
I don't even have a maxed 4 star yet and my 5 stars are at most rank 2. It feels so hard to complete certain nodes because I don't have the right champs.
As I said on the stream. I can put together a quest team of rank 4 5star and just got my first 5/65. and I have just 100% act 5. But I used 4stars a lot in act 5 completion. 4star Medusa for Ultron, 4star void for regen, 4 star vision for power control and immunities, 4 star iceman immunities, 4star AA is still an absolute beast, 4 star omega red caltrops etc.....there was nearly always a 4 star in my questing team for utility.
This is insane. I don’t spend money on rank up materials or FFMCs, I play in a top 50 AQ, P2 alliance. My most recent r5 5* was ghost, who relies heavily on synergies. After 2.5 years of playing this game, I still don’t have her synergy companions as 5*s. I was also able to do my Act 5.4 Ultron exploration with a 4/40 unduped Medusa. I realize this is anecdotal, so I’ll get to my point: One of the coolest things about this game is the fact that you collect these seemingly useless characters and eventually you find use for them. Whether it’s your 3* Guilly vs ROL wolverine, or your 4* DD classic vs The collector, finding interesting counters to seemingly impossible tasks is what brings this community together. I see it in the high prestige chats all the time, people helping each other get through tough fights or content in unique ways. I would have been on board with champion requirements if they ONLY allowed 4*s or below. This would make the content more skill based. We collect and rank up characters on our accounts and should be allowed to use them anywhere we want.
Stop paying for deals and it will change real fast. If more than 50% of accts do that that would be a huge drop in their revenue without that KABAAM will not listen.
Hi Prof long time watcher, first time commenter. I am actually on the unpopular side of this. I don't have the largest roster but I do have maybe 4 or 5 of the Meta champs at 5*, however I like it that there are tiers of progression, even for us free to play guys. Even the people who spend crazy money have to meet a skill threshold and invest some time. Exploring act 4 gives you enough to bring a 5* to R4, uncollected unlocks lots of benefits, and elders bane gets you the resources for a R5. The back issues of Ultron will give you a lot of resources to be used on 5* champs so I'm still building my 4* roster for the variant difficulty and then going to look into the act 6. Variant is a whole different level than uncollected and act 5 and 4* are key there. My perspective is not from a elitist point of view, but from a true grinder that gets his own time rewarded. And my final thought: When I first did any act 4 or act 5 we didn't have the extreme damage dealers that come out nowadays. A 4* ghost can out-damage a rank 4 duped 5* Black Panther or any of the original characters. I don't think is healthy to boycott, part of the fun is having a new challenge instead of a stale game. Thanks! Los
I wouldn't mind the 4* restriction if they gave more notice. Giving a 1x week notice and still pushing deals for 4* is shady. This should have been announced a few months ago imo.
To make this right, they need to: 1) reduce the costs of 5* and 2) enable rankdowns of 4*. Not rankdown tickets- enable rankdowns infinitely. Regaining resources that are now squandered would be a big step in the right direction.
Banning 4*s from Act 6 might be not only shady, but also illegal. Many people have invested REAL cash on fostering their 4* roster in the last months, specially with those $30-catalyst offers. I haven't, but I think of all those who did and now get shit on by Kabam. The MCOC community demands to be respected.
Ciro Trejo Moya The community does not deserve any respect from Kabam. Not when their response to being screwed over progressively harder each time is to scream “Harder Daddy” and open their wallets even further.
I recently came back to the game and they have been giving out 4 star shard deals and I have bought them all. And I am mostly done with act 5 now and they come at me that my 4 stars that I paid for will be useless for the next act? This is some bullshit they should get rid of this ASAP
I have meh 5 stars and mostly 4 star champs and lacking recourses like gold or iso etc and now when I have used all my recourses on my 4 stars its for nothing and its really hard to come back from that it really is
I did Act 5.4 100% in the first 3 days after it dropped, and I used a 2 star sparky for my blade synergy. He saved me a lot of units. Even now with 100% variant and LOL I have had to use a 4 star Void.
if they will make these act 6 requirements, then that means there might be a monthly event quest difficulty for cavaliers also. 4 star deals should also be reduced in pricing and four star shards should be easier to get (as common as 3 stars). I am still an intermediate player but haven't finished act 5 but now i dont have any pressure to do it quick for act 6 because i only have about 3 viable 5 stars. what i do think should definitely happen is instead of a 4 star restriction, we should AT LEAST be allowed to bring only 2 4 star champions.
This is a big deal. Kabam pulled a huge con artist move by promoting and selling 4* champs, crystals, items, etc... and not announcing until the last second that 4*s will be phased out of the act 6 which is complete discrimination towards free to play, and low spending players. This is absolutely demoralizing, and disrespectful to the majority of the payer base
I’ve been playing for 4 years, but only gotten fairly decent in the last two. I do grind a lot like everyone else, but because of what I do and my schedule, I’m blessed enough to drop $50-&100 here or there over the past few years. So in other words, I do “pay to play”.....and I still get just as screwed as everyone else. With a few exceptions, my 5* roster is trash. Out of 37 opportunities for a 5*, I’ve only duped one 3x......but after duping my 1st (OG BP), it took me well over a year plus to dupe again. My 5* roster is full of Kamala Khans, Groots, and other unduped trash champs....and I pay to play and grind in arenas. I’ve gotten a champ from the lowest tier after completing every challenge....every one of them guys. I’ve duped 4* Superior IM, Storm, and Colossus more times than I can count....and I pay to play. To date, I still only have a 3* Corvus, took me 3+ years before I ever got SW and after 4 years, I just got a 4* Dr. Strange....well after both had been nerfed. And when I am fortunate to get a few good champs, their initial PI is far lower than my trash champs when I max them out.....sometimes as much as 1000 points (my maxed out 4* SL is 1049 PI lower than my maxed out Phoenix). I should have quit years ago. But this is something I do with my kids and we are a comic book family.
When 6 stars came out , kabaam wanted to assure players that 4* are not phasing out , they mentioned it a few times because thats what everyone was thinking ... this is exactly what you would do to start phasing out 4 stars
My hats off to you sir as always. Where are we headed ultimately in this game??? Is it at the end just a cash grab ? All you can really do is put your hands up and shake your head ...
Prof I like the SW and Sabre synergy against Mutants...it gives them a fury at the start of the fight...SW is one of the few 4* that I still used despite having a decent 5 and 6* team...im gonna miss her in Act VI
Well, I had to use 3-star Ghost Rider for months just for the sinergy with my 5-star Blade till I got super lucky and got him as a 5-star (4-star version came last month only). I believe this type of champion requirement only hurts the game by impeding people from building teams as they wish. I can only hope that Kabam changes this before act 6 goes live.
"4* will always be valuable" -Kabam Ive realized even map 5 aq is *getting* tough for 4* It seems the speed of difficulty is getting too fast for me The game is like a second job these days.
I still use mainly 4* for map 5 aq sure it takes longer to take down but with the right champs it's fine I usually bring sw or MS and can make it through the whole map day 5
I quit this game when guardians of the galaxy were featured champs. Kabam will continue to cash grab and suck our wallets and pockets clean. And for us free to play players this is not acceptable for we will constantly lag behind more and more until we reach the point where there is no fun in playing and people who spend tons of money will be non stop bragging and flexing about their account. There tons of great content creators out there who keep this game going constantly sucking me back in if I drift away from the game. I say we boycott and prove the community has had enough and that it's time for kabam to end their ways of scamming users and lying to us. As a game like mcoc the company needs to be reliable and needs to be trustworthy to their community, they should take an example from Warframe. Warframe puts their community first and asks the players what kind of bundles they would like and for what price. Mcoc also needs to REALLY have fair odds and not dictate us like mindless toys. We need to show that we want the dictionary's definition of fair and not kabam's definition. We need to rise and show that we want more we are not senseless 2-year-olds this problem needs to be addressed. I have 2 five stars Ronan and Colossus you could say I got Kabamed, this needs to end now, I should be saying I got Kabamed when I get an amazing champ like Corvus. My line will be available to those who need it, just ask.
I did Act 5 100% about 5 months ago, I do have a 6* Corvus and Domino and some other god tier champs as 5* (Medusa, Magik, Blade), however due to precious RNG, I still don't have say Void, CAIW, Symbiote Supreme, Gulk, Sparky or Ghost Rider as 5* and because of that I recently maxed out all of them so that Kabam can come and say "Screw your new ranked up 4 stars, you're fucked"... So shitty
I have four stars i.e. archangel that get me through alot of content, however with the new title, I understand their point. I understand them wanting that reward to be something that is earned.
Lol I really thought the revolutionary talk that they kept hinting at was them doing something that levels the playfield, like forcing us to use 2 stars more frequently. This is the opposite of that. Wow I'm so dumb
you are correct prof, i dont have AA, void, capIW, medusa, venom, GR, symbiote supreme and magik as five star so i took my 4 stars to rank 5 for specific fights and synergy they even helped me in elders bane now they a totally useless in act 6 for me, i took my AA and void to sig99 last week just for act 6, kabam never think before taking decisions like this
people talking about act 6 is no place for 4 star champs are so wrong because we've seen video proof that there are skilled players out there that can do AMAZING things with just 4 stars...how about the guy that went through all of LOL with just his 4 star AEgon...hell I have become uncollected and taken every event down with just my 4 star Ghost on all the levels of difficulty and uncollected and there is also a player who did the very hardest part of Captain Marvel event with a 3 star Ghost so why not let them try act 6 if they win they win if they don't they don't but don't tell players this isn't for you go play in arena or do something until we decide to bless you with a great 5 star champion where you even have a chance at surviving act 6 and if they let all stars try act 6 they might be realize they are in over their heads or they have to use a lot of units on revives and potions just to keep going but don't say no we won't even let you see just how skilled you are
Mike J you can also have the skills to use a unawakened 5* colossus to beat labyrinth. Just a different kind of skill. Personally I like the challenge and that’s how I see it. But I understand why people are upset to a point.
I’ve got a fairly decent roster at this point. I’m almost up to a second rank 5 5-star. But, I still depend frequently on 4-stars to supplement my team synergies for Blade, Domino and Ghost. And, I’m relying on several 4-stars to supplement my roster for utility purposes. Really disappointed in Kabam for making this decision, and I’m hoping they reconsider the decision.
i never went for 5 stars but i have near all the 4*s on my main account but only like 6 5* and 1 6* and now they tell me i can't do act 6 just because i didn't want to go for the power just the synergies to get the long fights, in all the game is amazing they just need to re think how us as players play.
Seatin made a really good point in his rant. The cavalier crystal gives you an 11% chance for a champ you can use for act 6. The rest? You can’t even use them in the act. And why is a 3* even guaranteed in that crystal?!
This is B's I demand somesort of compensation for this I run off of my 4* blade still recently became uncolected and now it breaks me that all my hour apon hour are now worth less
I’ve been playing for around 3 yrs, and am no whale. I’ve beat act 5, and parts of LOL and variant. When you don’t spend money, god tier champs are few and far between. Without 3* champs, I wouldn’t have beat LOL my first run, as I used some for synergies. This game is easy when you’re COW and have an unlimited roster of 5 and 6 stars at your disposal. For the rest of us, we use skill and creativity. Thanks kabam for completely eliminating that from act 6, and adding the one element we are lacking... spending. I can’t grind in arena all day for shards, I can’t devote my life to a top tier alliance for season rewards, and I can’t spend as though money is no object. This may be the time I quit. Variant and LOL give great rewards for ranking champs, but if you don’t have to roster, they stay stagnant in your inventory. Now I have to wait longer, playing mostly unchallenging event quests until my roster has expanded. This isn’t end game challenges, nor does it promote creative play. Another ban is in order.
For one who still uses a 4* Ghost Rider, I don’t feel as though the Star Requirements is a bad thing, there are plenty of ways to get 5* champs and materials to rank them up, yeah, it’s going to make you look at your roster more carefully and start playing champs that you’re not used to playing. You might have a ranked up 5* champ that you put on AW defense and now you will have to pull them out for questing. Overall, I guess I’m trying to say, play all of your champs, get comfortable with every one of them, work with different synergy teams, you never know, you might find a new team that works really well for you.
I actually have a decent team of 5 and 6 stars but I’m still upset with this as I do grind the 4 arena at times just for a good synergy team. I would grind the 5 star but at the moment it has some insane numbers to get the champ. I say if they’re going to do this then they need to make a 6 star arena so that we moderate players actually have a chance at the 5 star champs
This really sucks, especially for people like me in meh tier alliances who only have 2 decent 5 stars. Now i'm at a loss whether I should invest in my 4 star roster that much because I plan to keep playing the game and they're going to be useless once i get to act 6. Seriously, this is BS.
If they’re gonna make 4*’s obsolete then they need to make 5* crystals cheaper like 5,000 or something
S Thomas exactly it takes forever to get a 5 star, and I’m not even close to a 6 star
Exactly
ive been playing for just under a year, im 4k shards away from my 1st 6 star, Only got 15 5* champs so wont be doing act 6 anytime soon
5 stars are actually the same price as a 3 or 4 star. Basing this off of dupes
2 star dupe = 55 3 star shards
3 star dupe = 55 4 star shards
4 star dupe = 275 5 star shards
55 x 5 = 275
2,000 x 5 = 10,000
So if the cut the price of a 5 star crystal in half should they also cut the rest of the crystals prices also?
I use them for uncollected monthly... and will continue to use them how are they obsolete
The problem is not everyone has all the good champs as five stars or the synergies.
and not every champ is even available as a five-star (sw).
This is pretty disappointing. I understand that they need to make profit ... it is a business at the end of the day.
This is going a bit too far though. There should be no reason why they go as far as to restrict champs based on their star level. They’re taking all 6 classes in doing so. This doesn’t raise the level of difficulty by any means. It simply increases the gap between summoners with less and more developed rosters.
They have restricted by one or a few class levels before, but now they’re restricting a whole star level that, with the increased power levels of r2 and r3 6*s that we’ll see in Act 6, won’t be too viable to use. It’s not fair. Most people don’t have the time to get into arena so they’re almost forcing summoners hands into buying more of their garbage 5* offers. It’s a money grab.
The sad thing is that if this remains in the game. There will be a lot of people who will end up quitting and it’s very unfortunate. I myself am at about 650k rating and do ,singly use 5*s to do most of my content. I have been playing the game for about two years now and hate to see this. I occasionally use one or two 4*s in random event quests from time to time. I use the occasional synergy’s just for fun ... don’t necessarily rely on it but still think this is unfair.
I have r5 certain 4*s out of mere love of the champ and using them and although I probably wouldn’t throw them into Act 6 as my go to ... don’t like the thought of them restricting me from using them in any area of the game.
I understand you’re a professor ... so please don’t kill me for my run ons haha
Kabam:
dO yOu gUyS nOt hAvE aNy 5&6 sTaRs!??
A couple more reasons why this is bad.
1 - everyone’s top champs are generally locked up in AW and AQ, so even if you have a strong roster you also need a deep one. If you’ve got 3 5/65 5*s and say 7 or 8 4/55s it’s a good bet that a lot of those are locked up in alliance modes. At this point some of your best options might be that maxed out 5/50 4* Blade or Corvus or whomever.
2 - Specific nodes or bosses might require particular champs in order to beat them. Say there’s a stacked Korg or Thing, you need certain champs to beat these guys. What if there’s a huge regen boss and you don’t have a strong heal block/reversal 5* or 6*? Sorry about your luck?
3 - I like the idea of requirements but as a power level cap. What if you were restricted to ONLY 4*s and lower? Or even 3*s? This would make it more about skill.
totally agree especially the part about the requirements being only 4*
I feel Kabam has made two types of alliances/players now. Those who pay to play and progress and those who keep it casual. I'm not a great player but I have been playing semi casual for 3 years and a 690k rating and done with alliances. I am not paying to keep up.
And brian grant lol
I've had a 1 man alliance for about a year now. I just do all the events and run AQ map 1 by myself. 5 clears a week gives me just under 1k glory, which slowly adds up to purchases of t2a and t5b. I'm 588k and progressing slowly, but zero stress. AW sucks, and hard AQ maps I can also live without. 100% FTP, and stress free, that's the way. Cos this is a GAME. A game is a fun thing. It's only fear of missing out, of being left behind, that drives 98% of players to go nuts until they burn out.
Look me up . My IGN is Harbor Kat. We are a retired alliance that plays only for alliance event rewards and occasionally AQ map 3. No AW and no pressure. Only requirement is to hit the help button if you're on.
I’m in the exact same boat. I’ll keep grinding 4* champs until they hopefully stop this money grab gamblefest of a game
im working on act 5 at the moment, not quite at act 6 yet but as it stands my 4* are the life of my team, i have a few 5* but all are unawakened, this basically means my game has stalled until i can grind more 5* and duplicate them (on a free to play account) Thanks KABULLSH....
Yeah it’s a massive grind to build up a f2p roster and rank up. Have been playing almost a year and got zero 6* shards and two 5* heroes I can’t rank up or awaken. Think I might be quitting this game soon
whales are going to be running war with OP champs while everyone else gets left behind. either spend to keep/catch up or play super casual or just find another game and waste the last couple of years of years on this clown fiesta of a game
"Clown fiesta" underrated burn
I relate to this comment the most
I agree. I have very few rank 4 5*. No rank 5 5*. Most of my top champs are 4*. Kabam is punishing weaker players :(
@Umair Sadly it is becoming that way. I'm free to play, being in high school. Might just quit.
Victim here considering my 5* roster is terrible so I still heavily rely on my 4* roster
9:03 EXACTLY!!! Its good to hear someone intelligent. Proff hoff your the man. And yeah this situation would completely justify a boycott imo
Julien Pierson ......*you’re ......I’m surprised you spelled intelligent correctly 🤣🤣
Freddie Samuel ....haha 🖕🖕
With all due respect your wrong Act 5 and below/AQ/AW/Monthly Events /ROL/RTLOL/ Lab / Some Variant/Arens/Dungeons can still be done with 4 stars how can you say they are irrelevant over a single act
Aldo Perez when did I say that ? I think this is a misunderstanding . I am f2p myself and I did all act5 100% with only 4stars and I am pissed off about this no 4star requirement. Really pissed off ..
I believe i did misunderstand. I thought you were in agreement with this affecting 4 stars to the point if them beinng irrelevant... yes it sucks that i cant bring in my 4 main champs because they are 4s but when i saw the reqs. I saw them as nothing it affects me in no way
Im one of those people that has a 5/65 (and 4 t5b so i can take more up), and a couple 4/55s & 6*s. But for me, these requirements just took out most my utility champs. Like if theres biohazard i gotta rank up my r1 5* Ultron which i dont really want to do because i have 3 or 4 double immune 4*s. And i cant bring in my 4* GR for blade. And i cant bring in my Ghost or brand new Ægon for some sick damage (and variety). I could go on more but i think yall get the point. My 4*s bring more utility to the table than my 5*s can.
Another point. Kabam should've prefaced with, "this content is not made for 4*s". Yeah its the same effect to not use em, but at least itll be our choice, not a forced law.
I agree fully with this statement
Idk. I don’t feel it’s right. Like you said, the games no longer becoming about skill but about who’s willing to drop the most cash for 5-6* champs.
Not true. It will take more skill to beat. You won't be able to rely on synergies or your God tier broken 4 *. Please stop and remember we asked for hard content. Eq isn't even hard anymore. LoL has been easy so far... Variant is annoying but hasn't be hard..
I am looking forward to the challenge. Put your big boy diapers on and get too it.
I call for a boycott AGAIN! It is time my friends.
@@DJ_TRON Nope dude, ppl did boycot and kabam had to backout with theyre ridicilous nerfhammer what they did. Sure we didnt get back normalnsw and so on but they were much more nerfed as they are now.
Jr is correct
I was around for the first one and this feels a whole lot like that one did. The community wasn't mad enough the second time. Almost everyone is mad over this one though. If a boycott is gonna happen this is worthy of it.
@@citizenbrain8065 Yeah i was around too. This calls for it to so badly. And not just this but new information about what seatin said about 5 and 6* for act 6. And now this silent "nerf" for ghost example. Removing gifting badges and so on.
I’m kinda thankful because I had a few days to take a step back and evaluate the amount I’ve spent and fun it’s been. Feel great about putting the game down for at least some months.
Anyone who clears act 5 100% should get much better rewards shards, rank up gems, awakening gem, etc
This is completely unacceptable . I’ve gotten through act 5 using only 4*s!! Now I only have 2 r4 55’s and the rest of my 5*s suck!
I would say boycott. This is real shady.
Another boycott should happen. Hate the direction the game is going now. Find myself questioning daily if I still wana play, only thing stopping me is not wanting to let my team mates down
Boycott 2019 o.O I see it and also if 4* are gonna be useless for act 6 then they might of well remove the 3* from the new Crystal's
I am so pissed about that, it's just stupid and dumb as if I want to do a run of act 5 using 3 stars I can but act6 I can't use my four stars that I have spend so many resources and time on. I say the community should #boycott act6. I have been playing this game for more than 2 years and my rating is at 460k but still don't have more than 4 good five stars that I can use.
@Umair same here, I've been playing for 2-3 years now and have only just got one of my (only 7) 5*s (Spiderman symbiote) into rank 3!!! All my fighting/questing is done by 4*s!
Kabam will get sued I can see it happening now so they are going to be forced to change this.
you can't sue Kabam. It's in their terms of service.
I HOPE THEY DO CHANGE A LOT OF THINGS BUT THEY CANNOT BE SUED I BELIEVE BECAUSE IF YOU READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WHICH YOU AGREE TO WHILE DOWNLOADING THE GAME.
NOTHING IN YOUR ACCOUNT IS ACTUALLY YOURS AND THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY LIKE WITH YOUR ACCOUNT IF THEY WISH TO.
YOU HAVE NO CLAIM WHATSOEVER.
SO EVEN IF SOMEONE SUED THEM FOR ANY NUANCES IN THE GAME, THEIR CASE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN THE COURT OF LAW ON ANY CONTINENT.
I REALISED I USED ONLY CAPITAL LETTERS. I AM NOT SHOUTING AND I AM BEING VERY POLITE :p JUST CANT WRITE THE WHOLE THING IN SMALL LETTERS AGAIN.
APOLOGIES IF YOU ARE THAT KIND OF PERSON WHO GETS OFFENDED OR FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BEING YELLED AT WHEN YOU SEE CAPITAL LETTERS. I AM NOT . HAVE A GOOD DAY.
Definitely. I’m really pissed. I have a strong endgame account with five r5 5* and I happen to not have a 5* ghost rider therefore I can kiss my villain synergie goodbye -_-
I totally agree with you proff! I'm one of those of the community that still use a lot of my 4*. I hope they rethink their decision to make 4* obsolete. I spend a lot of time on this game hoping that I can continue to grow, and this puts a damper on that plan. Thank you for all you do and God bless!
great video prof!! like how you and a few other RUclipsrs stand up for the community!!!
I couldn’t agree more with what you said and majority of the comments below...my 5* luck is terrible , occasionally I get lucky. If only my phc and 4* luck could transfer over to a 5* crystal I’d have no complaints. I do have a duped r4 Corvus, unawakened r4Blade, R4 Starky and the rest are r3-Wasp, x23, Proxima, Nebula and the rest are rank2 or below meh characters or need to be awakened to be good. I was fortunate enough to be one of those people who became Uncollected with 300-400units only using 1 rank3 5* & the rest were 4*s at rank5 or 4. I have just a deep enough roster atm to were I’m able to war, quest, do AQ, but come Act 6 there’s no way I can even attempt it. I’ve been playing for under 2yrs and I’ve only 100%ed up to 5.1, I’ve spent so much time in the arena as well grinding for 4*s so I def agree as well about Kabam doing a percentile thing in the 5*arena, atleast then it gives people in the community that are in my shoes a chance to dupe or get those 5*s we need so we don’t have to be reliant on 4*s...anyways, glad to have you as one of the voices of our community
My ghost :( , not hood , ant man and wasp of 5* 😪😪
Right? So glad I just brought my 5* Ghost to R3 before this nerf surprise
Don’t forget the ai boost that just happened which nerfed ghost
I’m upset about this for two main reasons. First I fail to understand why? Why do they care if I use 4* or 5*? If the content is so hard that you can’t get through with a 4* team, why do they care if I want to spend enough money on revives to push through? I know people will say money but im actually paying them more if I keep buying unit packages for revives... to me. Why do they care if I want to take a champion to practice, or get better? Why do they want stifle progression of players. My main issue though is that I have no control over the progression of my account. The last three pulls Have been the same champions that I already have duped on my account. So if i had 10 5* champs before, I still have the same 10 champions. Good or not. My account hasnt progress at all in the last three month, not because I haven’t open 5 star champions crystals, but because I keep pulling the same bs champions it’s just as annoying. And find it hypocritical that the rewards I get for completions helps my 4star roster more than my 5*. It’s like them telling us we can’t put 2 star champs on defense but the gifting us two star champs.
Ive never seen a company that dislikes its community like kablam. I play this game for fun and to me kabam has forgotten that this is a game that should be open to play. They should be finding ways to expand game play not always trying to restrict it. I don’t get why I keep being punished for wanting to play their game. And to be honest I would pay more money and be more invested if they were more generous in allowing me to invest in my account, with better deals, rewards and packages. However, I don’t support this. I do feel that we should boycott mainly because We’ve been given no prior warning what’s so ever and don’t find this no different than last time.
I can understand the pain and frustration this situation causes. It really does suck! My one additional point on this is the loss of an opportunity for a tougher challenge for those who want to try clearing act 6 quests with only 4*s. Similar to how players like to take a challenge by only using 3*s against the uncollected difficulty for the monthly event quests
I'm a level 52 player, got uncollected a month ago , 18 5* heroes and my total rating is about 319k. Just to let you know where I stand in the game right now. I get a 5* champion roughly once a month so I'm not even close to you when it comes to opening 5*. 5.3 and 5.4 are still undone which is fine.I don't intend to get it done so quickly.
I think we all knew 4* heroes were losing their relevance in the contest,one way or another. The drop in scores for the basic arena, 4* shards being so easily available in alliance events, 5* shards being given out so readily in the monthly calendar, the release of 6* heroes, we all knew it in our hearts that the 4* guys time at the top was limited. They were becoming the new 3* champs and soon you'd need your 5* champions as your bread and butter champs.
I completely get that synergies are going to be ruined with the 5-6* requirements, and its going to allow only the whales to really get in there and get the Cavalier title. However lets be real here. 4* heroes were going to be out of their depth in Act 6. You shouldn't be using a lot of them in the first place. Guys like Star-lord or Archangel may be exceptions due to their freakishly high damage output but the vast majority are going to be obsolete.
You were always going to need 5* guys going forward into Act 6 to have a good chance of completing it. If you're lucky, 6* champions because you've been around long enough and skilled enough to get 10k 6* shards. You could argue that Kabam ought to give you a choice, bring 4* if you like and that's a fair point. It sucks you don't have a choice but its also sending a message that the game is moving forward.
I hope in future, they make 4* shards easier to obtain, easier than now and also, 5* shards as well. Monthly event quests need to have their rewards buffed.They were at best adequate for when we had 5 Acts but Act 6 means the intermediate guys need buffs to their content. At least help us move forward a little.
Agree Emanuel
I cant imagine my life without my *4 max archangel and starlord
Well Prof, I have been playing since 2015 with a one year break from 2017 to 2018. I only have eight 5 Star Characters and only one is a 4/5 55/55. Then I have all 4 *, 3*, and below. I use my 4 * for just about everything. I only utilize 2 5 * (because I only have 2 that are worth anything) for Act 4 and Act 5 (which is nowhere near completed) and then the rest 4 stars. I have been playing non-stop since I came back to the game in Sept/Oct 2018. I feel that all the work I am putting into the game to get through Act 4 at 100%, Act 5 and getting my champions ranked up is going to for nothing with the launch of Act 6. It's bad enough it took me this long to even get through Act 4 and start on Act 5 that by the time I get a good 5 star roster it will be a year from now or longer. I know I am not the only one. I don’t know what they are thinking or what their overall agenda is.
There are a ton of players who are going to be out of luck and stuck for a long time.
Thanks Prof.
My entire questing roster is r5 4 stars.. Sw is my bread and butter im pretty skilled this to me feela like a money grab... Ive been building for about a year and a half. Just got around to uncollected but this isn't fair... The game is extremely broken right now im finiding certain abilities arent working as well as certain masteries... I only have 16 5 stars no 6 stars.. Its gonna be another 2 years before i can even attempt a run at act 6 and by that time ill be left in the dust... This is purely money vs equality, catering to those whom have the deepest pockets... Why else would they be having a period where every featured gmc is available for purchase in the last 24-48 hours.... Its not right... I think we should be boycotting until this gets solved many other RUclipsrs feel the same as you and i agree 100% some of us lower end players have the skills to clear it maybe not 100% it yet but the initial clear is well within grasp of alot of us middle players and kabam is basically taking a s@$! On out efforts and what time and potential small amounts of miney we may have invested... Im disgusted and pissed at this
I only used 4 stars to complete act 5 and uncollected as I only got a 6* mephisto with february's event and now using the newly buffed she-hulk, I have 0 5 star rank4 and full T2A good to know im being stopped from progressing for being good at the game and having bad luck in 5* crystals, thank you kabam
Give it time bro. You will get there. You either have to wait patiently or pay the kascam monster
Agreed Prof, as a 4yr veteran who used to lead an alliance for 2yrs and was an officer for another 2, I now started my own alliance of 1 called Kabam Suxxx!! I’ve sent multiple tickets in about this and other bs that they pull on mid level players. This is definitely catered for whales. I personally refuse to spend a dime and dispise the poor attitudes of most alliances. Think I’m done man. Unless Kabam would be awesome enough to convert all 4*s to 5*s etc. But that’s extreme wishful thinking.
Thank you for making this video! This is a real issue.
I'm even against the special tag requirement they put I mean the dificyltiy is so high and they just giving us 2-4* and 3-5* crystals in which we mostly gona get 2* and 3* and we have to give 150-300 units per crystal the player who got skills but there acc is low on champions can't play higher difficulties!!! Thats also there money grabbing plan we should call this month of this game "Robbery event quest" where kabam will take money from all low level players and give them bunch of 2* and 3*
I agree with you good sir! If you can’t bring four stars into act 6, synergies need to be changed or all four star champs should be released as five or six stars.
Ok so no 4*'s allowed in Act 6. What happens as the game progress's? If the player community allows this to happen today, then the community opens itself up for future issues, where in later game content perhaps there will be no 5*'s allowed? Why not ? No more 4*'s today, then no 5*'s allowed tomorrow or when ever Kabam gets around to it. If the community doesn't stop this now this game will be just a pay-for-play in the future. Perhaps those who have don't care, but those who don't have 10's of thousands to drop will care.
This is total BS!!! Even just for synergy purposes!! They’re looking for more and more cash!!
I do have a decent roster of a few good 5*s but I have certain 4* champs that I depend on for certain fights like Medusa against ultron. I will eventually have the 5*s to do every bit of it but for the guys and girls that don’t have the luck it’s really shitty. I do feel bad for the folks in those situations
Well, my duped 5* KK, Iron Patriot, Falcon, Winter Soldier, and Howard the Duck gonna save the day guys! Don't worry.
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WS has become extremely good
I’m the same as the guy you mentioned that did Act 5 with mostly 4* champs. I only have one r4 5* now and when I beat act 5 he was only r3. I literally play this game every day and spend almost all of my free time grinding in the arena or questing. I knew that they were cash-holes but damn dude.. this is fucked up.
If a boycot is what everyone ends up agreeing on I WILL be a part of that.
I sit exactly at that bracket. Had no good pulls, still managed act 5, got two 4/55’s. I’ve even got uncollected on my second account with 4/40’s in less than a year. I’ve just had shit luck and this has written me off!
I thought this was going to happen when they first talked about champion requirements for quests. So I quit upgrading four stars awhile ago.
Kabam is messed up!
Story mode should just be a story mode you bring whoever you want simple as that.
I don't even have a maxed 4 star yet and my 5 stars are at most rank 2. It feels so hard to complete certain nodes because I don't have the right champs.
As I said on the stream. I can put together a quest team of rank 4 5star and just got my first 5/65. and I have just 100% act 5. But I used 4stars a lot in act 5 completion. 4star Medusa for Ultron, 4star void for regen, 4 star vision for power control and immunities, 4 star iceman immunities, 4star AA is still an absolute beast, 4 star omega red caltrops etc.....there was nearly always a 4 star in my questing team for utility.
This is insane. I don’t spend money on rank up materials or FFMCs, I play in a top 50 AQ, P2 alliance. My most recent r5 5* was ghost, who relies heavily on synergies. After 2.5 years of playing this game, I still don’t have her synergy companions as 5*s. I was also able to do my Act 5.4 Ultron exploration with a 4/40 unduped Medusa. I realize this is anecdotal, so I’ll get to my point:
One of the coolest things about this game is the fact that you collect these seemingly useless characters and eventually you find use for them. Whether it’s your 3* Guilly vs ROL wolverine, or your 4* DD classic vs The collector, finding interesting counters to seemingly impossible tasks is what brings this community together. I see it in the high prestige chats all the time, people helping each other get through tough fights or content in unique ways.
I would have been on board with champion requirements if they ONLY allowed 4*s or below. This would make the content more skill based. We collect and rank up characters on our accounts and should be allowed to use them anywhere we want.
Stop paying for deals and it will change real fast. If more than 50% of accts do that that would be a huge drop in their revenue without that KABAAM will not listen.
Hi Prof long time watcher, first time commenter. I am actually on the unpopular side of this. I don't have the largest roster but I do have maybe 4 or 5 of the Meta champs at 5*, however I like it that there are tiers of progression, even for us free to play guys. Even the people who spend crazy money have to meet a skill threshold and invest some time.
Exploring act 4 gives you enough to bring a 5* to R4, uncollected unlocks lots of benefits, and elders bane gets you the resources for a R5.
The back issues of Ultron will give you a lot of resources to be used on 5* champs so I'm still building my 4* roster for the variant difficulty and then going to look into the act 6. Variant is a whole different level than uncollected and act 5 and 4* are key there.
My perspective is not from a elitist point of view, but from a true grinder that gets his own time rewarded.
And my final thought: When I first did any act 4 or act 5 we didn't have the extreme damage dealers that come out nowadays. A 4* ghost can out-damage a rank 4 duped 5* Black Panther or any of the original characters. I don't think is healthy to boycott, part of the fun is having a new challenge instead of a stale game.
Thanks!
Los
I wouldn't mind the 4* restriction if they gave more notice. Giving a 1x week notice and still pushing deals for 4* is shady. This should have been announced a few months ago imo.
Good point
To make this right, they need to:
1) reduce the costs of 5* and
2) enable rankdowns of 4*. Not rankdown tickets- enable rankdowns infinitely. Regaining resources that are now squandered would be a big step in the right direction.
They need to add witch, wolverine, thor, etc. as 5 and 6stars if that's the way it's going to be
Banning 4*s from Act 6 might be not only shady, but also illegal. Many people have invested REAL cash on fostering their 4* roster in the last months, specially with those $30-catalyst offers. I haven't, but I think of all those who did and now get shit on by Kabam. The MCOC community demands to be respected.
Ciro Trejo Moya The community does not deserve any respect from Kabam. Not when their response to being screwed over progressively harder each time is to scream “Harder Daddy” and open their wallets even further.
You can still do everything with 4 stars besides act 6 how can you says they are useless just because they can’t go into act 6
I recently came back to the game and they have been giving out 4 star shard deals and I have bought them all. And I am mostly done with act 5 now and they come at me that my 4 stars that I paid for will be useless for the next act? This is some bullshit they should get rid of this ASAP
Prof hey I bought the awakening 4* deal and you called it now that's obsalite for many people.
Boycott
I have meh 5 stars and mostly 4 star champs and lacking recourses like gold or iso etc and now when I have used all my recourses on my 4 stars its for nothing and its really hard to come back from that it really is
There goes my 4* OG Vision, the true hyperion killer
I did Act 5.4 100% in the first 3 days after it dropped, and I used a 2 star sparky for my blade synergy. He saved me a lot of units. Even now with 100% variant and LOL I have had to use a 4 star Void.
if they will make these act 6 requirements, then that means there might be a monthly event quest difficulty for cavaliers also. 4 star deals should also be reduced in pricing and four star shards should be easier to get (as common as 3 stars). I am still an intermediate player but haven't finished act 5 but now i dont have any pressure to do it quick for act 6 because i only have about 3 viable 5 stars. what i do think should definitely happen is instead of a 4 star restriction, we should AT LEAST be allowed to bring only 2 4 star champions.
This is a big deal. Kabam pulled a huge con artist move by promoting and selling 4* champs, crystals, items, etc... and not announcing until the last second that 4*s will be phased out of the act 6 which is complete discrimination towards free to play, and low spending players. This is absolutely demoralizing, and disrespectful to the majority of the payer base
If boycotting is not the answer will they consider?
I’ve been playing for 4 years, but only gotten fairly decent in the last two. I do grind a lot like everyone else, but because of what I do and my schedule, I’m blessed enough to drop $50-&100 here or there over the past few years.
So in other words, I do “pay to play”.....and I still get just as screwed as everyone else. With a few exceptions, my 5* roster is trash. Out of 37 opportunities for a 5*, I’ve only duped one 3x......but after duping my 1st (OG BP), it took me well over a year plus to dupe again. My 5* roster is full of Kamala Khans, Groots, and other unduped trash champs....and I pay to play and grind in arenas. I’ve gotten a champ from the lowest tier after completing every challenge....every one of them guys. I’ve duped 4* Superior IM, Storm, and Colossus more times than I can count....and I pay to play. To date, I still only have a 3* Corvus, took me 3+ years before I ever got SW and after 4 years, I just got a 4* Dr. Strange....well after both had been nerfed. And when I am fortunate to get a few good champs, their initial PI is far lower than my trash champs when I max them out.....sometimes as much as 1000 points (my maxed out 4* SL is 1049 PI lower than my maxed out Phoenix).
I should have quit years ago. But this is something I do with my kids and we are a comic book family.
When 6 stars came out , kabaam wanted to assure players that 4* are not phasing out , they mentioned it a few times because thats what everyone was thinking ... this is exactly what you would do to start phasing out 4 stars
My hats off to you sir as always. Where are we headed ultimately in this game??? Is it at the end just a cash grab ? All you can really do is put your hands up and shake your head ...
Prof I like the SW and Sabre synergy against Mutants...it gives them a fury at the start of the fight...SW is one of the few 4* that I still used despite having a decent 5 and 6* team...im gonna miss her in Act VI
They need to make a 5* basic arena so it’s a similar grind to what we have been doing for 4*’s
Well, I had to use 3-star Ghost Rider for months just for the sinergy with my 5-star Blade till I got super lucky and got him as a 5-star (4-star version came last month only). I believe this type of champion requirement only hurts the game by impeding people from building teams as they wish. I can only hope that Kabam changes this before act 6 goes live.
People who are eligible to complete act 6 should be given a Whaler title instead of the stupid Cavalier one. This act is dedicated to them.
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Am gutted i just got medusa ranked cleared act5 100% and now can't use my black bolt or Karnak synergies
SHADY BS
prof hoff.
yesterday i got my firs 6* (Psylocke) and an 5* Heimdall from an basic 5* crystal :D
I’m sorry that’s too bad
"4* will always be valuable"
-Kabam
Ive realized even map 5 aq is *getting* tough for 4*
It seems the speed of difficulty is getting too fast for me
The game is like a second job these days.
I still use mainly 4* for map 5 aq sure it takes longer to take down but with the right champs it's fine I usually bring sw or MS and can make it through the whole map day 5
I quit this game when guardians of the galaxy were featured champs. Kabam will continue to cash grab and suck our wallets and pockets clean. And for us free to play players this is not acceptable for we will constantly lag behind more and more until we reach the point where there is no fun in playing and people who spend tons of money will be non stop bragging and flexing about their account. There tons of great content creators out there who keep this game going constantly sucking me back in if I drift away from the game. I say we boycott and prove the community has had enough and that it's time for kabam to end their ways of scamming users and lying to us. As a game like mcoc the company needs to be reliable and needs to be trustworthy to their community, they should take an example from Warframe. Warframe puts their community first and asks the players what kind of bundles they would like and for what price. Mcoc also needs to REALLY have fair odds and not dictate us like mindless toys. We need to show that we want the dictionary's definition of fair and not kabam's definition. We need to rise and show that we want more we are not senseless 2-year-olds this problem needs to be addressed. I have 2 five stars Ronan and Colossus you could say I got Kabamed, this needs to end now, I should be saying I got Kabamed when I get an amazing champ like Corvus. My line will be available to those who need it, just ask.
This sucks big balls! I love fighting with my 5*sparky but I don't have a 5*blade or GR to complete the synergy...
It's all about money!!! U watch, the 5* deals are coming and people are willing to pay to get that 5* champ.
The change to parry was a positive prof. Keep things in perspective.
I did Act 5 100% about 5 months ago, I do have a 6* Corvus and Domino and some other god tier champs as 5* (Medusa, Magik, Blade), however due to precious RNG, I still don't have say Void, CAIW, Symbiote Supreme, Gulk, Sparky or Ghost Rider as 5* and because of that I recently maxed out all of them so that Kabam can come and say "Screw your new ranked up 4 stars, you're fucked"... So shitty
As a free to play player I'm most upset about the new cavalier crystal. It's what is going to create a bigger gap between the spenders and the rest.
I have four stars i.e. archangel that get me through alot of content, however with the new title, I understand their point. I understand them wanting that reward to be something that is earned.
Lol I really thought the revolutionary talk that they kept hinting at was them doing something that levels the playfield, like forcing us to use 2 stars more frequently. This is the opposite of that. Wow I'm so dumb
you are correct prof, i dont have AA, void, capIW, medusa, venom, GR, symbiote supreme and magik as five star so i took my 4 stars to rank 5 for specific fights and synergy they even helped me in elders bane now they a totally useless in act 6 for me, i took my AA and void to sig99 last week just for act 6, kabam never think before taking decisions like this
I love this haha. Maybe they could find a way to let people bring
people talking about act 6 is no place for 4 star champs are so wrong because we've seen video proof that there are skilled players out there that can do AMAZING things with just 4 stars...how about the guy that went through all of LOL with just his 4 star AEgon...hell I have become uncollected and taken every event down with just my 4 star Ghost on all the levels of difficulty and uncollected and there is also a player who did the very hardest part of Captain Marvel event with a 3 star Ghost so why not let them try act 6 if they win they win if they don't they don't but don't tell players this isn't for you go play in arena or do something until we decide to bless you with a great 5 star champion where you even have a chance at surviving act 6 and if they let all stars try act 6 they might be realize they are in over their heads or they have to use a lot of units on revives and potions just to keep going but don't say no we won't even let you see just how skilled you are
Mike J you can also have the skills to use a unawakened 5* colossus to beat labyrinth. Just a different kind of skill. Personally I like the challenge and that’s how I see it. But I understand why people are upset to a point.
The death of my 5/50 SW is now complete
Kabam doesnt care about players that do not pay to play.
I’ve got a fairly decent roster at this point. I’m almost up to a second rank 5 5-star. But, I still depend frequently on 4-stars to supplement my team synergies for Blade, Domino and Ghost. And, I’m relying on several 4-stars to supplement my roster for utility purposes. Really disappointed in Kabam for making this decision, and I’m hoping they reconsider the decision.
Totally agree with your points. And why are there 4* shards in the rewards if they are not even allowed in the act ?
Yes this requires another boycott
i never went for 5 stars but i have near all the 4*s on my main account but only like 6 5* and 1 6* and now they tell me i can't do act 6 just because i didn't want to go for the power just the synergies to get the long fights, in all the game is amazing they just need to re think how us as players play.
Seatin made a really good point in his rant. The cavalier crystal gives you an 11% chance for a champ you can use for act 6. The rest? You can’t even use them in the act. And why is a 3* even guaranteed in that crystal?!
5* champs should have been reduced to 5k 6 months ago knowing they were going to do this
This is B's I demand somesort of compensation for this I run off of my 4* blade still recently became uncolected and now it breaks me that all my hour apon hour are now worth less
I’ve been playing for around 3 yrs, and am no whale. I’ve beat act 5, and parts of LOL and variant. When you don’t spend money, god tier champs are few and far between. Without 3* champs, I wouldn’t have beat LOL my first run, as I used some for synergies. This game is easy when you’re COW and have an unlimited roster of 5 and 6 stars at your disposal. For the rest of us, we use skill and creativity. Thanks kabam for completely eliminating that from act 6, and adding the one element we are lacking... spending. I can’t grind in arena all day for shards, I can’t devote my life to a top tier alliance for season rewards, and I can’t spend as though money is no object. This may be the time I quit. Variant and LOL give great rewards for ranking champs, but if you don’t have to roster, they stay stagnant in your inventory. Now I have to wait longer, playing mostly unchallenging event quests until my roster has expanded. This isn’t end game challenges, nor does it promote creative play. Another ban is in order.
Middle class always gets the shaft
For one who still uses a 4* Ghost Rider, I don’t feel as though the Star Requirements is a bad thing, there are plenty of ways to get 5* champs and materials to rank them up, yeah, it’s going to make you look at your roster more carefully and start playing champs that you’re not used to playing. You might have a ranked up 5* champ that you put on AW defense and now you will have to pull them out for questing.
Overall, I guess I’m trying to say, play all of your champs, get comfortable with every one of them, work with different synergy teams, you never know, you might find a new team that works really well for you.
I actually have a decent team of 5 and 6 stars but I’m still upset with this as I do grind the 4 arena at times just for a good synergy team. I would grind the 5 star but at the moment it has some insane numbers to get the champ. I say if they’re going to do this then they need to make a 6 star arena so that we moderate players actually have a chance at the 5 star champs
This really sucks, especially for people like me in meh tier alliances who only have 2 decent 5 stars. Now i'm at a loss whether I should invest in my 4 star roster that much because I plan to keep playing the game and they're going to be useless once i get to act 6. Seriously, this is BS.
I recently pulled a 6* Ghost and was hyped to use her in act 6. .. but since I only have a 2* wasp and 4* the hood she is almost useless in act 6